"the apprentice" broke a tool today sorry boss

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brennan said:
Craftsman makes a tap that you can keep different size taps in the handle much better that Klein.
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I would have to obtain a passport to go to Sears from where I live. I guess they still make good stuff.
 
I understand your feels.

I knocked over an empty salt shaker. Boss was yelling at me. It took him 10 min. to tell me his over all point. I was calling it an empty saly shaker. Home owner could be calling it an antiuqe crystal cup handed down from genration to generation and worth about $10grand. That's when I seen his point.

I liked this one. Boss bought a greenlee hole saw kit for my truck $380 from grainger. It went missing. I was thinking of all the other co-workers I handed my keys to to go get lunch or for them to borrow something. Boss told me to replace it. I thought wow I dont wanna spend that kind of money. I went to HomeDepot and found the exact samething for $88.

My point is even though I understand where you are coming from. You have got to be careful with everything. Or you have to replace it.
 
I'm glad Mr. Brennan brought this up. The Craftsman tap holder is a simple yet clever idea. Basically, it is an ordinary tap holder tool except it doesn't have that sliding bar. Instead, the end is embedded in a hollow screwdriver type handle. You don't need the torque of the sliding bar anyway for small taps, you get a better feel for what the tap is doing, it's not off center and, and without the bar, it's not hitting stuff.
Unlike the Klein Triple Tap, replacement taps are ordinary taps available any place taps are sold. The hollow handle also has room for the numbered drills which are necessary for the smaller tap sizes.
Sears, however, no longer lives up to it's traditional "Satisfaction Guaranteed Or Your Money Back" guarantee. So beware.
Note: in my previous post, I mentioned a little bit about using oil on a tap. Someone mentioned getting oil from a dipstick. This led to comments about jump starting cars by touching bumpers. This is the Internet. Carry on...
~Peter
 
iaov said:
I love my tools. Some are very old friends that have served me well for years, but a new tool , even if its just a screw driver, can get me exited about going to work. :)
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man I thought I was the only one. I bought a set of Husky screwdrivers friday after work. I could nat wait for monday morning.
 
iwire said:
That will be news to the manafacturers.
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You're right. Both the Ideal and the Klein versions include forming new threads. I remembered reading it about the first chaser I bought. :-?
 
Note: in my previous post, I mentioned a little bit about using oil on a tap. Someone mentioned getting oil from a dipstick. This led to comments about jump starting cars by touching bumpers. This is the Internet. Carry on...
~Peter
Beware ,talking about broken taps will always lead to
the subject of eating polar bears as well.
 
JohnJ0906 said:
In a year? At least 25 times, usually more. Usually to correctly tap new boxes that aren't threaded right, or at all.
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Actually it only has to happen once to ruin your day.

I remember we were removing a pneumatic control module on a very important process heater in our plant. Well one of the guys dropped a "one of a kind" screw into about 6" of crushed stone. We could not run the plant without that screw so I removed one of the other screws and instructed about ten other guys to watch very carefully. I purposely dropped the screw where the first screw had been dropped. Everyone pointed to the same spot and sure enough there it was! That same trick has worked many times since then.

One definition of stupid is to do the same thing and expect different results.

Same thing on a remodel, if you have a stripped out screw and no tap, you're in a heap of trouble. The jobs not done, no money, come back to fix etc. etc.
 
Ready: our apprentice forgot his tools today. So he took my tools which I allowed in the past. We had an emergency call and the Senior Tech left him behind on the job fixing some outside Gfci, as he goes on the emergency call. The apprentice calls me (like an Animal) to tell me that someone use my 6 in 1 tap and they broke the tip and installed the broken end into the handle. He said he needs it cause the bottom 6-32 in 2 of the boxes need to be re tapped or he has to change the boxes which have 1/2'' ridge going in and out. Luckly I have been around and know that I need to have a backup. IO told him where there is one in my bag and the day is saved but it could have been ugly.
 
g@friendly said:
Yeh right:rolleyes: ! but he did really good and he took care of the job almost all by himself.
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You mean to tell me the guy forgets his tools ( more than once apparently) and that isn't a problem. AND an apprentice can work on their own without direct supervision?
 
AHH yeh! He has been with us for a while and is good (he did need the tap) he was helping his grand ma this weekend and spent the night there. He over slept and ran out forgetting his tools (he made it on time). The senior tech checked everything when he got back. Or I would have gone. He has just under 2 yr.

I have guys with 5 yr of new construction house only coming in applying for work and they call them self mechanics. I also had guys with 3 yr saying the same thing.
 
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